Monday, March 9, 2009

Newsletter

NEWSLETTER MRS. TURNER MARCH 9-13

IN SCHOOL FIELD TRIP- We will be having another environmental inschool field trip tomorrow.

ART LESSON- Mrs. Dennehy will be doing an art lesson with the students on Tuesday.

ACCELERATED READER- The nine weeks ends this Friday. As of today, you have _____out of 10 points.

REPORT CARDS- Report cards will be sent home next Thursday.

BUCKLE DOWN- The students have been working hard out of the Buckle Down Reading and Math workbooks. We will be having the Buckle Down Post Tests in a few weeks. We want the students to take these tests seriously. Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 25th (Reading Post Test) and Friday, March 27th (Math Post Test).

UPCOMING DATES- Environmental Field Trip- Off campus- Wed. March 1st
- Spring Break- April 6-10
- Spring Fling- Sat. April 18th
- CRCT- April 21-27

SUBJECT MATTER
SPELLING-Core Words- face, cut, door, done, group Bonus Words-transition words, sequence words, persuasive writing, narrative writing, synonym, antonym, homophone, perimeter, area, probability / Students will have choices for spelling homework this week / Cloze Review on Friday

READING-Buckle Down lessons / Time For Kids

ENGLISH/ WRITING- We will be doing LOTS of activities this week with persuasive writing/ Persuasive Post Test will be given on Friday / Write “Mort” stories / Pretest for Narrative Writing / Verbs- linking verbs, main verbs and helping verbs / End of unit test on verbs and correct usage

MATH- Buckle Down lessons / Correct post test- The second attempt at the post test was MUCH better / Review gathering data, geometry, and division

SOCIAL STUDIES- Continue reading out of Chapter 8 / Review levels and branches of government / Ch. 8 Test on Friday

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